You should take Bitcoin seriously: I realised that it was over ten years ago when I started banging on about mob...

I realised that it was over ten years ago when I started banging on about mobile payments and tablet computing. It struck me particularly when I revived this video that I made back in 2000. From Chris Skinner 's videos on Vimeo Some would say that video was / is visionary. I would say that it was just ahead of its time, but nothing that could not be foreseen. Ten years ago, it was obvious that mobile, wireless technologies would fundamentally change the way in which we pay and transact and, today, it is obvious that the way in which social, consumer technologies will fundamentally change the way in which we pay and transact over the next ten years. For example, my big theme today is focused upon the impact that social currencies will make, which will soon become as important as commercial currencies. It’s visionary according to some, but obvious when you look at developmen...